popthem

A Popthem is an insight. It comes from the word apothegm - a comment, an anecdote, a statement - something that turns on that light bulb in your brain and makes you think - "so that's what really happened", or "so that's what it means". It's stuff we've read that we found illuminating and that we want to share with others by posting on this blog. See Leondardoswall.com for the latest in how Leondardo Da Vinci got his ideas.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Honest as the day is long

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POP1 So I'm reading Thoureau's  journals (July 24, 1852) and I come across the above phrase.  It's too hackneyed a phrase ...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Origin of the words 'daughter' and 'wife'

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POP1 The word 'wife' in Anglo-Saxon was originally wif-man, which meant the weaver.  The husband was known as weapon-man, the prot...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Shakespeare and Dandelions

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POP1   From Shakespeare's play Cymbeline:                   "Fear no more the heat o' th' sun,           Nor the ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Einstein's take on God

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The following quotations are from a letter Einstein wrote to philosopher Eric Gutkind.  The letter was sold by Bloomsbury auctions on May...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

The immortal plagiarism

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POP1 After the battle of Long Island, Nathan Hale  was captured by the British forces in Queens, New York.  He was tried for espionage a...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Shakespeare's wisdom is not.

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POP1 Mark Antony in his funeral oration over the body of Julius Caesar speaks the following lines: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, ...
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